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Comments from wife latest Syracuse bombshell

Fired assistant Syracuse basketball Bernie Fine.

Fired assistant Syracuse basketball Bernie Fine. (AP)

The wife of longtime assistant Syracuse basketball coach Bernie Fine told a former team ball boy accusing Fine of molestation that her husband should just go find himself “a gay boy” because “he needs that male companionship that I can’t give him,” according to a secretly recorded phone conversation.

Laurie Fine’s stunning comments during the 2002 phone call with her hubby’s accuser Bobby Davis came after she appeared to corroborate Davis’ claims that her husband repeatedly abused him sexually in the Fine home when he was a child.

“He’s going to be 60 in a few years,” Laurie Fine, 53, said about Bernie during the call, the transcript of which was published by the Post-Standard newspaper and portions aired by ESPN on Sunday.

“What are you going to do to rehabilitate someone like that? What are you going to do? … He doesn’t think he needs help.”

Davis then said, “He likes boys.”

Later in the call, Laurie describes how, when Davis routinely slept in the Fine home’s basement as a kid, Bernie would tell her to put their own son to bed, or “Go check” on their son, or “Go lay with him, go upstairs.”

“Anything to get me out of the room. And I knew,” Laurie Fine said. “I told you when I was walking down the stairs at night, I’d say to myself, ‘Guaranteed he’s not in there.’ When I’d look in, his papers would be spread out all over and he’d be gone. Right down in the basement, door closed.”

Davis replied, “He did that every night.”

Laurie then said, “You know what, go to a place where there’s gay boys. Find yourself a gay boy … Get your rocks off, and have it be over with. He needs that male companionship that I can’t give him.”

Davis chimed in, “You know how he’d always try to get me in the shower? You knew about that, right?”

Laurie answered, “Yeah, I still have a graphic memory of that, thank you.”

“He’d always say, ‘Bobby and I are going into the Jacuzzi. And I’d go to the bathroom and I’d try to come in. The door’d be locked. I’d check: ‘What’s going on?’

“‘Nothing.’

“‘I said, ‘Unlock the door.’

‘”No, we’re in our underwear,’ ” she said her husband would answer.

“You did nothing wrong,” Laurie told Davis.

Laurie also referred to Bernie being ticked off about an unpaid loan to Davis: “When I told him, you know … When we talked, I felt really bad you were calling me over a year ago about this whole money thing. I said to him, um, ‘You know, Bobby and I talked. I know some things about you that, if you keep pushing, are going to be let out.’

Hours after disclosure of the phone call Sunday — and after a third man accused Bernie Fine of molesting him as a kid — Syracuse fired the 65-year-old assistant coach, who is the target of a child-molestation probe by state and federal authorities.

One of the lead agencies investigating Fine is the US Secret Service, whose specialities include forensic analysis of computers, particularly connected to the exploitation of children.

Bernie Fine has denied molesting anyone.

Additional reporting by Larry Celona and Rebecca Rosenberg